Raz Mesinai aka Badawi performs his series of haunting compositions drawing from ancient nomadic music and free improvisations for zarb and framedrum Resurrections for goatskin.

The evening explores the timbral and textural possibilities within the Project Room's silo acoustic chamber.

ISSUE Project Room and Essential Kettle are pleased to present Cassavetes & Spaghetti, an event that brings together community, artisanal food and our favorite independent filmmaker, John Cassavetes.

Neil Burke was a founding member of the seminal spastic noise group Men's Recovery Project. Kites & Nautical Almanac both use homemade electronics to give gripping and engaging performances. Dan Friel plays in the NY group Parts and Labor and performs electronic noise-pop solo. Necking is new in the NY noise scene.

In a rare debut, Texan Maria Chavez (turntables) joins improvisor Ricardo Arias (balloonist) for the first time, and Jack Wright (saxophone).

ISSUE Project Room presents a site-specific, multi-video projection installation of Shimpei Takeda.

KPMPBW is Kevin Park on trumpet, Michael Plunkett on drums, and Brendon Wood on guitars.

Nightwatch was formed in NYC in 2002 by Warren Holt and Andrew Hurst by experimenting with collisions between digital and analog manipulations, noise and beauty, improvisations and set structures.

A discussion of the annual Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert of Nevada as a visionary model for new forms of self-organizing communities, new ways of approaching art, as well as activism.